For the record, Ladurantaye is a good, decent and tolerant man

Steve Ladurantaye is a close friend. We are even in a geriatric punk band together, and we are going into the studio this week. Not a few of our songs attack racists and bigots. One is even called Donald Trump Is An Asshole. Not exactly the cultural output of a racist, that song.
TORONTO—"All novelists are liars." Thieves, too. So said Mordecai Richler. We were in the dark at the back at the Bovine Sex Club on Queen West, my friend and I were, waiting to see the Minneapolis punk band, Off With Their Heads. My friend had just told me the story of how, years ago, he organiz...

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